Top News Headlines of 17 February 2014
- Haru Kuroki won best actress for her role in the Japanese movie Chiisai Ouchi (The Little House) at the 64th Berlin International film festival.
- India’s top two singles players, Somdev Devvraman and Yuki Bhambri, would aim to win another ATP Challenger title but they will face stiff challenge from a number of talented players at the USD 100,000 Delhi Open, beginning here on Monday.
- Aam Aadmi Party on Sunday released its first list of 20 Lok Sabha candidates that includes some of its well known faces Yogendra Yadav,Kumar Vishwas,Medha Patkar,Ashutosh and H S Phoolka among others along with lesser known names.
- Uncertainty hangs over statehood for Telangana with Union Minister Jairam Ramesh saying the government should not push through the contentious bill in the midst of a din or without discussion.
- A small plane carrying 18 people from the resort town of Pokhara in Nepal crashed in the jungles in an adjoining district on Sunday under heavy rain and fog conditions.
- From this week, Delhiites can register police complaints of mobile phone theft,forgery and disputes over phone or online. The facilities will be available for non-cognizable offences only.
- The income tax department has begun prosecution proceedings against some of the 600 entities of Indian origin who have allegedly laundered money in tax havens directly or through fronts.
- The issue of two Italian Marines shooting two Indian fishermen should have been resolved within three days, but it became enmeshed in India’s deadly judicial and political-electoral gears, Italys special envoy said.
- Assailants shot dead three members of a family, picking them off one by one outside their southeast Delhi house, in a gruesome killing spree on Saturday night which police suspect was triggered by a long-running dispute over parking space.
- The CBI has reportedly started fresh questioning of former IAF chief S P Tyagis cousins in the Rs 3,600 crore Agusta chopper deal, following claims by a European middleman that he had paid them.
- The Tricolour was finally hoisted at the Sochi Olympics on Sunday, five days after the International Olympic Committee lifted a 14-month ban on the Indian Olympic body over election of tainted officials.
- Asserting the need to eradicate corruption, a trial court sentenced four bank officials and three others to three years in jail for defrauding a bank of Rs1.14 crore.
- Citing violation of procedures, a group of doctors at AIIMS have sought PM Manmohan Singh’s intervention to put on hold recruitment process for appointment of 37 professors in the country s premier medical institute.
- Penguin authors Jyotirmaya Sharma and Siddharth Varadarajan have asked the publishing house to withdraw their books and pulp them, The Hindus: An Alternative History.
- Haryana Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda appears to be at the receiving end these days. After the recent slap gate incident at Panipat, it was shoe gate for Hooda on Sunday.
- Days before US secretary of state John Kerry touched down in Beijing for his renewed outreach to China, US officials traveled to China to hold high level discussions on South Asia.
- AAPs Mayank Gandhi will contest from northwest Mumbai against Gurudas Kamat and Meera Sanyal from south Mumbai against Milind Deora.